No-Cook Lasagna
"No pre-cooking needed but your guests will never know! My adjustments to this recipe add more sauce and more cheese since I always seemed to run short when assembling this dish. This is a tried and true winner on Bridge night. For the best flavor I recommend Prego sauce flavored with Italian sausage - or brown some Italian sausage along with the ground beef for the sauce."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 453.59 g ground beef
- 946.36 ml spaghetti sauce
- 354.88 ml water
- 425.24 g container ricotta cheese
- 709.77 ml shredded mozzarella cheese
- 118.29 ml grated parmesan cheese
- 2 eggs
- 29.57 ml dried parsley (or 1/4 c. fresh chopped parsley)
- 2.46 ml salt
- 1.23 ml ground black pepper
- 170.09 g dry lasagna noodles
directions
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- In a 5 quart saucepan, brown the meat then drain the fat.
- Add the spaghetti sauce and water.
- Simmer about 10 minutes.
- While the sauce simmers, mix ricotta cheese, 1 1/2 cups Mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, eggs, parsley, salt and pepper.
- Pour a generous 1 cup of the sauce on the bottom of a 13x9x2-inch baking dish.
- Arrange a single layer of uncooked lasagna noodles over sauce.
- Cover with a generous 1 cup of sauce; spread half of cheese mixture over sauce.
- Repeat layers of noodles, sauce, and cheese filling.
- Top with a layer of lasagna noodles and the remaining sauce then sprinkle with remaining Mozzarella cheese.
- Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 45 minutes.
- Remove foil and bake an additional 15 minutes or until the cheese begins to turn golden on top.
- Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.
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Reviews
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i made this tonight and it turned out really soupy and the noodles weren't cooked....we followed the directions exactly...didn't use prego which might have made a difference...but i wasn't impressed....maybe its me :o -
amazing! -
Absolutely delicious!! I will never cook my noodles before hand again!! -
This was very easy to make and I like the fact that you don't have to cook the lasagna noodles ahead of time. Only thing was I would have liked it a little more spicey, next time I might add some garlic and onions or a spicer spaghettic sauce or Italian sausage. But I like how easy it was. Made for ZWT4 -
Easy and yummy!
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Tweaks
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I made this recipe with some adjustments for a pot-luck at work. I used ground turkey instead of beef, and made more cheese mix and sauce. Everyone loved it, and they were amazed it was the first lasagna I've ever made. One man even had 4 servings!!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
luvinlif2k
Bowie, Maryland
I grew up in PA Dutch country and now live in the suburbs of D.C. I am a homemaker and love to play with my kids who are now 9 and 6. My favorite room in the house is the kitchen. My children used to be explorative eaters... anything went. They are becoming more discriminating ... OK, picky ... so my newest challenge is finding interesting dishes that will meet their tastes. This usually means not admitting to specific ingredients or making them unnoticeable (such as onions). I'm loving the ability to practically pulverize my onions quickly with my food chopper. I love experimenting with different culinary traditions. When I find the time to play in the kitchen uninterrupted, dinner can be quite an adventure at our house. My ultimate month off would be to spend a month travelling around the world as a food critic. - send me back to St-Jean-De-Luz in SW France for Chipirones (a fabulous squid dish)along the bay! My favorite cookbooks are:Extending the Table by Joetta Handrich Schlabach, The Williamsburg Cookbook, The Burger Meisters by Marcel Desaulniers, The Common Grill Cookbook by Chef Craig Common, America's Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes by Donna Washburn & Heather Butt, and most recently, the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Book (I finally got a countertop ice cream freezer!)(Update on 03/17/09- hm! Not many changes!)
